عمق المسبح واضح بالتعليمات.

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Breakdown of عمق المسبح واضح بالتعليمات.

• مسبح: the swimming pool
• عمق: the depth
• تعليمات: the instructions

Questions & Answers about عمق المسبح واضح بالتعليمات.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

In Arabic, especially in the present tense, you usually do not say a separate word for is / am / are.

So:

عمق المسبح واضح بالتعليمات
literally looks like: the depth of the pool clear in the instructions

But it naturally means:

The depth of the pool is clear in the instructions.

This is very normal in both Standard Arabic and Levantine-style sentence structure. If you wanted past or future, then Arabic would use other words, but in the present tense the to be verb is normally omitted.

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What does عمق mean, and how is it pronounced?

عمق means depth.

It is pronounced roughly as ʿumʾ / ʿomoʾ / ʿumq, depending on the speaker and style. For English speakers, the hardest part is usually the first sound:

• ع = a deep throat sound, often written as ʿ
• then م
• then ق, which may sound like:
  • a glottal stop ء in many urban Levantine accents
  • or a stronger q-type sound in more formal speech or some dialects

So in everyday Levantine pronunciation, the final ق may not sound like a hard q. That is very common.

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Why is it عمق المسبح and not something with of, like in English?